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Back to the feet problem, I resort to sandals to avoid my toes getting hurt - unfortunately Canadian winter is not very forgiving.

I have not noticed this with recent shoe purchases, but I haven't needed to buy a pair of leather shoes in quite a while.

I do know that sizes for women's clothes have become a joke. What the heck is a size zero, for Pete's sake?

My friend ordered a "large" jacket last week, and, when it arrived, it was too small for her. She is not a big person; heck, a men's medium sweater is too large for her.

Doh!

Therefore feet do grow as we age?

mine are 42,5 EU size.

how come everyone is so big footed here ?

No, mine is very small. I wear 7W, that size is very hard to find.

I don't recommend this. In my 20's I did that because I was young and stupid.

Ingrown toenail, pain and suffering for 6-9 months, nearly lost my toe, now I have a very skinny, straight sided toenail.

Neither do I. The nail of my left foot's big toe is still gone.

Been size 14 US since senior in High school.

Still size 14 in my senior years. Nice thing about that size. No body buys em. So I pay less than retail when I buy boots.

No foot growth here. But I am a active old coot. Maybe I keep em worn down.

My feet are too big, US size 11-12, but that's not a real problem. My feet are too wide. I can hardly fine shoes in stores that fit. Usually rub my pinky toe pretty bad and wear out there. I wear shoes out on the sides, not the ends. If I rent skates or ski boots or bowling shoes etc I gotta upsize to 13-14 just to get my feet in. A few times I've had shoes that actually fit when getting extra wide EW etc but its hard to find.

I look forward to summers where I can wear sandals most of the time.

Idk. I wear 45 and I'm 179.5cm in height. I'd say I'm average built.

Bones don't grow in adulthood, but my understanding is that feet tend to spread sideways (by the soft bits expanding) with increasing weight, which often comes with age. I also agree with - and I suspect more companies get away with mis-sizing in the age of online ordering, when it's often easier to pass on a cheap pair than send it back.

As for me, my feet are exactly the right size - UK 14 - and it's not my fault a lot of manufacturers cater only for smaller folk. Recently I've discovered a brand of "barefoot shoes" (yeah, I know) that make shoes that are actually the same shape as my feet, which has been a Godsend.

Incidentally, there were three years in my yoof when the popular taunt "Act you age, not your shoe size" meant nothing to me, since they were the same number. So, as it happens, was my weight in stones (but I won't comment on rumours about the IQ ).

i am 171cm so my feet are abit smaller.

Even if the US/UK sizes are changing, one would hope the EU size, which is just cm, should be stable.... and these days when I look for a new pair of shoes in the US (mainly athletic shoes as I hardly wear my dress shoes so they last forever) most of them have tag with US/UK/EU sizes side-by-side anyway.

Should just switch all shoes sizes worldwide to cm, make it easy and universal. No more confusion over US/UK mens/womens/childrens b.s.

The issue is not that sizes are changing, it's that manufacturers do not correctly measure/label their products, or (in the case of those targetted at women) deliberately mislabel them.

With "EU size" (aka "Paris points") there's the benefit of slightly more precision - with size increments being ~6.67mm instead of ~8.47mm, and (I think) half sizes being more common - oh and there isn't the silly jump been "child" and "adult" sizes - but otherwise it's still just as bad.

There is an attempt to create a better worldwide standard called Mondopoint, which has 5mm increments and uses both length and width, to make it easier for people with wide/narrow feet to find footwear that actually fits.